{"id":329,"date":"2014-04-22T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=329"},"modified":"2014-04-22T11:17:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:17:46","slug":"competency-based-education-a-bait-and-switch-lobbying-effort-designed-to-transform-public-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2014\/04\/22\/competency-based-education-a-bait-and-switch-lobbying-effort-designed-to-transform-public-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Competency-Based Education: a Bait and Switch Lobbying Effort Designed to Transform Public Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The NH Legislature had no clue that they were opening Pandora&#8217;s box when they passed Senate Bill 48, last year.  It barely mentioned &#8220;Competencies&#8221; or &#8220;Competency-based&#8221; instruction:<\/p>\n<p>   V. Competency-based strategies provide flexibility in the way that credit can be earned and awarded and provide students with personalized learning, including those that are offered through on-line, blended, and community based opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>   I-a. &#8220;Competencies&#8221; means student learning targets that represent key content-specific concepts, skills, and knowledge applied within or across content domains.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Education Chair Nancy Stiles, the prime sponsor of this legislation, never told her fellow Legislators that all instruction in public schools moving forward would be transformed into Competency-based instruction and that the existing methods of instruction must be eliminated &#8212; based solely upon an 18-word definition of the term &#8220;Competencies.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nhfamiliesforeducation.org\/content\/competency-based-education-bait-and-switch-lobbying-effort-designed-transform-public\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NH Legislature had no clue that they were opening Pandora&#8217;s box when they passed Senate Bill 48, last year. It barely mentioned &#8220;Competencies&#8221; or &#8220;Competency-based&#8221; instruction: V. Competency-based strategies provide flexibility in the way that credit can be earned and awarded and provide students with personalized learning, including those that are offered through on-line, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-standards","category-curriculum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}